Word: bauers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Football coaches Hank Dunker and Ralph Jones have eleven members returning from last year's varsity, which tied Dunster for the league championship. Leading the Gold Coast offense will be veterans Bill Radomsky at quarterback Frank Weller at fullback, and Charley Bauer at halfback. Sophomore Charles Currier will find the other halfback slot. The starting line is undecided with several veterans fighting it out for the seven posts...
...something for that other fella in right [Hank Bauer]. I even used him as a catcher and I gamble and I lose [here Casey remembers a game with the White Sox when Berra...
Silvera and Howard, all his catchers, were gone and he had to call on Bauer]. But the fella hustles all the time...
...tenth, Casey had his work cut out for him. Now Silvera was gone; so was the only other Yankee catcher, Elston Howard. Who could put on the mask and pads to help hold off the Sox? Once more, Casey's brain clicked and whirred. He remembered Hank Bauer in Quincy, Ill., in the Three-I League, ten years ago. Hank had handled the tools of ignorance briefly in those days as a busher. Besides, the ex-marine was an old pro, the kind of guy who would stop a hard one with his teeth if he had to. Bauer...
Minnie Minoso drew a walk and was sacrificed to second. Still switching players as fast as he could remember their names, Casey had brought Tom Morgan in to pitch. Understandably, Bauer dropped a wide throw, and Minoso slid into third. Even so, the Yanks seemed safe. Catcher Moss bounced a routine grounder down to Phil Rizzuto. Incredibly, the incredible happened again. Robinson dropped Rizzuto's peg, Minoso came home, and the Sox were back in front. This time they held on to their lead and walked off the field winners...